Kolangal

<p>Ganga, a Tamil girl who does not know , looks for her friend Malini in . She then meets Bairavan, a Tamil man, who says that he knows Malini and Bairavan then sells Ganga to a brothel. The raids at the brothel to rescue Tamil women and they save most of them including the innocent Ganga. Anand, a police officer, is worried about Ganga and she tells him about her past. After Ganga’s father died, Ganga lived in her sister’s house but her brother-in-law tried to rape her. She left the house and decided to go to Mumbai. So, Anand drops Ganga in her sister’s house and to Anand’s surprise, her angry brother-in-law beat her in front of him. Anand intervenes and saves her. Anand secretly marries her. Anand’s family is a traditional and they all live in a bungalow. He has a widowed mother Karpagam, a bachelor uncle Sundarapandi, an elder brother Shankar and a sister-in-law Archana who have two children, a little brother Vijay who loves Sangeetha and a little sister Uma who loves Rajesh. Everybody blesses the young couple except Archana who wanted Anand to marry her sister Anjali. Soon, Bairavan surfaces and begins to blackmail Anand. Anand manages it intelligently but his family finds out that Ganga was in a brothel. It leads the entire family into a trauma. What transpires later forms the crux of the story. The film was initially set to be directed by , who was later replaced by . During production, reports emerged that Sasi was to be replaced by and that was set to join the cast, but no changes were made. The music was composed by , with lyrics written by . Thulasi of praised the film for its story, simple and natural dialogues, lively characters and cinematography. D. S. Ramanujam of wrote, “The seasoned director I.V. Sasi resorts to oft-repeated situations in the first portion where the heroine meets hostile elements in the house. Kushbu and Jairam, teamed again, carry much of the acting burden, Kushbu shedding copious tears most times and Jairam taking a mighty swing at the yellow journalism, the dialogue of R.N.R. Manohar being biting and full of vigour here”. The film won the , and Khushbu won for .</p>